Women are largely underrepresented in Irish student sports scholarships, according to a recent Sunday Independent poll. The poll reported that, of 61 sports scholarships awarded in Trinity College last year, only 15 were to female applicants. Although the Sunday Independent highlighted a number of areas of concern for women in sport, Trinity’s representation in this poll may not reflect recent gender trends in Trinity’s Sport Scholarship Programme. Of the 61 Sports Scholarships awarded in 2014/2015, 30 were allocated to rugby players, who were all men. The allocation of scholarships to rugby players was so disproportionate that they even got their own poster around campus. This … Continue reading The Distribution of Sports Scholarships is Not as Unequal as You’d Expect